Answers:
1. There are rivets on the belts.
2. Extra information given in the problem:
a. He has 9 buckles.
b. He has 22 rivets left over.
Solution:
1. Total rivets on the belts=(12 rivets/belt)(4 belts)+(15 rivets/belt)(2 belts)
Total rivets on the belts=48 rivets+30 rivets
Total rivets on the belts=78 rivets
2. The extra information given in the problem is the information that we didn't use to solve it. In this case:
a. He has 9 buckles.
b. He has 22 rivets left over.
Answer:
The number of trees at the begging of the 4-year period was 2560.
Step-by-step explanation:
Let’s say that x is number of trees at the begging of the first year, we know that for four years the number of trees were incised by 1/4 of the number of trees of the preceding year, so at the end of the first year the number of trees was
, and for the next three years we have that
Start End
Second year
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Third year
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Fourth year
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So the formula to calculate the number of trees in the fourth year is
we know that all of the trees thrived and there were 6250 at the end of 4 year period, then
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Therefore the number of trees at the begging of the 4-year period was 2560.
Answer:
0.00274725….
Hope this helps!